Lidia Catalano raises scene

Tonight it is released in San Martín "Fairy tales"

"Vení that I show my dressing room to you", proposes Lidia Catalano. There, in the third subsoil of the Theater San Martín, located to few passages of subte, she invented her world. In fact, the one of her and the one of Carmen, its Fairy tale personage "", the work of the Uruguayan Raquel Diana who is released today in the municipal room.

In one of the walls of his búnker "invention '" a window done with color papers "But how opens that window", Martín Lucesole asks, photographer of the NATION, before a shutter that subspills all practical and logical law. "Ahhh, what querés. Carmen has his… ", says laughter dead.

Let us recognize that Lidia Catalano also has his. To begin, the healthiest of madnesses and much (very many) talent. It would be possible to be speculated that also it is taken certain freed, like the one to invent a window in the dressing room, because San Martín is a site that has been knowing for years. His first work there was in "opera of two cents", that they followed works to him next to directors of the stature of Jaime Kogan, Jorge Lavelli and - now under the baton of Virginia Lago, in his room work like scenic director, who began two years ago with "Crimes of heart", of Beth Henley.

- Here you will have been sent good panzadas theater ones, no?

- Luckily. But also me I gave them in several sides. Hedy Crilla, that was my teacher, made us journey by all type of works; that was a very important experience. Of her I learned the respect towards the work, for that reason I am customary not to change anything of the text. I must make me of that text not to be I. That is pretty it of all this, for that I am actress.

- Really that one was the point by which you began this yet?

- Yes, I wanted to play, to find the form in that the personages breathe, to discover different texts.

- and what you found to "Fairy tales" in his first reading him?

- the poetry and the knowledge to count a story, a story in which White (Claudia Rucci) it counts through stories that are counted her to him. Thus it appears Maruja (Irene Almus), that is his madrastra, and "my" Carmen. The story begins in 1972 and finishes in 1990. That is, they are 18 years in the life of this woman who is developing a son. And the adressee exactly of this story is his son. In that story, the work touches all the shades: the glad thing, the dramatic thing, the tragic thing. And as it is developing a son, there is hope, there is joy.

- the work passes in conflicting years, as much for Uruguay as for Argentina.

- than More conflicting it would say that they were revulsivos for all Latin America. That is present, but the author does not insist on that point. He is like when you encontrás with which she has passed a great pain.

- How she is your Carmen?

- She is like a fairy godmother, an old aunt relative of all but aunt of anybody. I was born in a district, Villa Urquiza, and I decide me that the lady who gave injections us was the one that the bread brought, certain gadgets to my grandmother. That lady always was there, like Carmen.

- the impression that sos a little Gives thus, tenés aspect of madraza.

- A little yes, but I have my character. Sometimes I want to kill several (it is ed ***reflx mng). But this Carmen has a very special color, very placentero to journey. I always pay attention to that: in theater I want to enjoy. In order to suffer, the life. Here I cry, me revuelco, which is, but must have to please in the game.

- you were finding that pleasure during the tests?

- Yes. In that sense, the conduction of Virginia Lago was and is fantastic. It went taking to us to a very special world. A month before beginning the tests, in San Martín, we joined ourselves in the house of Virginia and initiated a sensible work to find to the White tone, that is the princess; of Maruja, that are madrastra, and of Carmen, the fairy godmother. In means of this personage they appear the fairy tales, appear Snow White, Pepe Cricket, the Cenicienta…

- When eras small you liked those fantastic histories?

- Mirá, I was born in a special house. My grandfathers were friend of Enrico Caruso, who always came to house and sang with my grandmother. The celebrations were in the middle of enormous tables and very many people. My grandfathers were plastic artist and in his study, that was above, there were great sculptures of naked bodies. When my friends came were wanted to die, imaginate. For me all that was normal.

- Reason why contás, your house was a story in itself.

- My house was like an installation, is certain. We listened to tangos, operas and until we had our great radial evenings.

- How many brothers were?

- Between brothers and cousins we were 9 or 10 boys. She was one marries very special. For example, we invented plays to complain to us certain things.

- he gave result Them?

- I do not know, but to the adults they liked what we did. And after the work, they answered to us and they gave his reasons us. He was very amused.

The scene like game

For Raquel Diana, the Fairy tale opening "" will be its first Argentine earth work after one long trajectory like actress and dramatist in the mythical theater the Shed, of Montevideo. For Virginia Lago, a new passage in its race like theater director.

- How it is to work under the direction of an actress?

- Fantastic, because it knows when you are comfortable in flowing of your fantasy, and knows when frenás to you by pudor or lack of conviction. It knows to watch, it knows to read the body, it knows to contemplate. I paint, and when one goes to the exhibitions tenés that vaciarte of the knowledge and to contemplate. Of some form, he is what she does.

- Pintás to your personages?

- I make drawings. But with Carmen still I did not put. In general, I leave passes the time because in each happening (I like to say last but that function) they are seen different things. Virginia to just said me that it tried to lodge to me in such place, but already nor memory in what was. But before each happened vos sabés what tenés that to be called on to arrive ahi '; clear that there is imponderable all along. I tell one you: during happened I pledge carboncitos. The other night, sabés what the smoke did? It did as clouds and I did I took root (she makes the gesture blow). And the clouds advanced. It was a jewel. You see? This personage allows these things me…